CASK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cask mean? 

• CASK (noun)
  The noun CASK has 2 senses:

1. the quantity a cask will hold

2. a cylindrical container that holds liquids

  Familiarity information: CASK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity a cask will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

cask; caskful

Hypernyms ("cask" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cylindrical container that holds liquids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

barrel; cask

Hypernyms ("cask" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Meronyms (parts of "cask"):

breech; rear of barrel; rear of tube (opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded)

bung; spile (a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask)

hoop; ring (a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling)

lag; stave (one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket)

spigot; tap (a plug for a bunghole in a cask)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cask"):

beer barrel; beer keg (a barrel that holds beer)

butt (a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons))

hogshead (a large cask especially one holding 63 gals)

keg (small cask or barrel)

pickle barrel (a barrel holding vinegar in which cucumbers are pickled)

shook (a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment)

tun (a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals)

wine barrel; wine cask (a barrel that holds wine)

 Context examples 

The old woman hid me behind a large cask, and scarcely had she done this when the robbers returned home, dragging a young girl along with them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And thereupon he sat down across the brandy cask and began to fill a pipe.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Casks of choice wine had been rolled out from the cellars, and starving peasants squatted, goblet in hand, draining off vintages which De Rochefort had set aside for noble and royal guests.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here you are in your house, and me still picking my salt meat out of the harness cask.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And here, under his direct supervision—for he went ashore himself—Leach and Johnson filled the small casks and rolled them down to the beach.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Some eddying fragments I saw in the sea, as if a mere cask had been broken, in running to the spot where they were hauling in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jo frowned upon that piece of extravagance, and asked why he didn't buy a frail of dates, a cask of raisins, and a bag of almonds, and be done with it?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As soon as the girl was assured of this, she came from behind the cask.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I have two Englishmen of this class in my train, who are at this instant, I make little doubt, as full of your wine as any cask in your cellar.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They composed one of the boats’ crews, and their task was to ply between the schooner and the shore, carrying a single cask each trip.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)